Software Engineering Meets Pancomputational Enactivism
Pancomputational enactivism grounds consciousness in fundamental computational processes, making it a universal feature of the physical world, not limited to brains or biological systems.
This is a Plain English Papers summary of a research paper called Why Is Anything Conscious? A Pancomputational Enactivist Perspective. If you like these kinds of analysis, you should join AImodels.fyi or follow me on Twitter. Overview The paper discusses the question of why anything is conscious at all, from the perspective of pancomputational enactivism. It proposes a theory of consciousness that grounds it in the fundamental computational processes of the universe. The key ideas include the notion that all physical systems are inherently computational, and that consciousness emerg...